Krantz
English 1010

PORTFOLIO DESCRIPTION

A final portfolio of your best writings from the term. In this class traditional grading will be replaced with a portfolio system that enables you to be graded holistically on your total performance in the class instead of fragmentarily on each separate assignment. Portfolio building is a natural process: you write profusely and are graded on a selected few pieces of work-your "best" efforts-that you put in your final portfolio. This process is appropriate for this course because it parallels the composing methods used by professional authors who write in large quantities and publish selectively.
The portfolio should include seven pieces in the following order:

a . An introduction of at least 1,000 words in which you introduce the selections in your portfolio and reflect on your growth during the semester as reader and writer. The introduction should use some of the development strategies taught in this course such as personal anecdote, description, comparison/contrast.

b. A sample of at least three photocopied pages from your assigned readings that illustrate your annotations of an esay (or essays). Include a short (200+ word) analysis of how your annotations enriched your experience of the particular text(s).

c. A six- to eight-page typed, double-spaced selection of your best or favorite shorter notebook entries for the term . By "shorter" I mean "hurry note" entries of approximately three sentences or less. (Note: it is OK to include some entries that are longer than this, but I want to avoid having you take up the whole six to eight pages with only a few long entries.) Although you don't need to revise the content of individual items in this selection, you should exercise your selective poweres in deciding which items to include. Also, attach a preface in which you discuss your experiences with note taking.

d-f.Three of the essays you feel represent your best work for the semester. Include a preface that explains in detail the origins of your texts, why you chose them for your portfolio, why and how you developed the works in the form you did, and how the works evolved. Your text should be thoroughly revised, edited, and proofread.

g. Process Memorandum: As part of the portfolio I want to see how your writing process works, how you start with an idea and work it through various transformations into a final paper. Therefore, in your portfolio turn in all the process work (photocopied annotations, preliminary notebook entries, drafts and revised drafts, and final version) for one of d. or e. or f. above. Attach a process memorandum to these materials.

Checklist: (Omitting any part will be grounds for an "E" for the portfolio.)

________ Introduction (1000 words)

________Analysis of annotations (200+ words)

________Photocopies of annotated pages (at least 3 pages)

________Preface to note-taking experience (200+ words)

________Selected notebook entries, typed. (6-8 pages of short entries with several per page)

________3 revised essays of the length assigned along with the original on which I commented.

________A Process Memorandum accompanied by all process materials for one of the essays.